Middle English Dictionary Entry
baǧǧe n.(2)
Entry Info
| Forms | baǧǧe n.(2) Also bage. |
| Etymology | AF (of unknown origin); the pl. baǧ(ǧ)es is also construed as sg. (cp. L insignia). |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
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Associated quotations
- [ 1334 *Grant Stafford, Eton Archives [OD col.] : Nous auons grante..a..mestre Esmond de Mortoryn..un bageys de deux colours. ]
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)20 : Bage or bagge of armys: Banidiun, bannidium.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2303 : Kyngis..closed in kystys clene..With their baners abowne, theire bagis therevndyre.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)471 : He was armed full clene In gold with asure full schene, Alle sett with bagges by-twene.
- c1440 Degrev.(Thrn)1049 : He beris a schelde of asure..Bot his bagges are blake..A lyone tyed til an ake Of gowlys and grene.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)4181 : Bagis & baners it blemyschid & swellis.
- (a1460) Badge York in Archaeol.17 (Dgb 82)226 : The Dukeshyp of Yorke with the Badges ben the Fawcon and the Feturlocke..The Bages that he beryth by the Castle of Clyfford is a Whyte Roose.
- c1460 My fayr lady (Hrl 2255)p.203 : So longe a man may loke and gase, To telle what shuld hire baggys been.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)315 : I ber on my bryst þe bagge of myn armys.
- a1500 *MS Dom.A.9 [OD col.] (Dom A.9)f.84b : The bageous of the Castell of Clifford is a whyte rose.
- a1600(1472) Rec.Bluemantle (Jul C.6)386 : The Kinge gave [him] a royall crosbowe..the case couered with velvette of the Kinges colers, and his armes and bages thervpon.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- 1486 ?Berners Bk.St.Albans (Blades 1881)her.leaf b 2/a : All the bastardis of all cotarmuris shall bere a fesse. Sum call hit a bastoun of oon of the .iiii. dignites of colouris, excepte the bastarde of the fixiales and the bastarde of the brethyrne of the cheue blode where theritaunce is deparded to euerych brothir elike moch theys bastardis shall adde more bagy to his armys or take a way a bagy of armys.
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